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Dr Alexander Kwarteng

Call Career Development Fellowship (CDF)
Programme EDCTP2
Start Date 2018-07-01
End Date 2021-06-30
Project Code TMA2016CDF1561
Status Active

Title

Impact of secondary bacterial infection in the development of filarial lymphedema among Ghanaian patients (SecBILE)

Host Organisation

Institution Country
Ghana

Current Organisation

Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research on Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Current Job Title

Senior Lecturer

Students Supervised

Type Name Title University Start Date End Date
MPhil Priscilla Kini Biochemistry KNUST 2019 2021

Memberships

Role Committee/board Start Date End Date
Coordinator Department Undergraduate Committee 2017

Education

Institution Degree Year
Doctorate, Germany PhD 2015-11-10

Areas Of Specialisation

Neglected Infectious Diseases (NID)

Publications

Mass Drug Administration Interruption by COVID-19 reportedly increases lymphatic filarial attacks, pains, and perceived increased lymphatic filarial infection transmission in rural Ghana
Authors:
Alexander Kwarteng , author
Yarhands Dissou Arthur , author
Samuel Opoku Asiedu , author
John Kanyiri Yamba , author
Emmanuel Kobla Amewu , author
Efiba Vidda Senkyire Kwarteng , author
Samuel Terkper Ahuno , author
Date:
2021-02-16
Journal:
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-234689/v1
Financial burden impact quality of life among Lymphatic Filariasis Patients
Authors:
Samuel Opoku Asiedu , author
Alexander Kwarteng , author
Emmanuel Kobla Atsu Amewu , author
Priscilla Kini , author
Bill Clinton Aglomasa , author
John Boulard Forkuor , author
Date:
2020-11-18
Journal:
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-40332/v3
Killing filarial nematode parasites: role of treatment options and host immune response.
Authors:
Date:
2016-10-01
Journal:
Infectious diseases of poverty
Content:
Identifiers:
PMID: 27716412
PMC: PMC5047298
The therapeutic landscape of HIV-1 via genome editing.
Authors:
Date:
2017-07-01
Journal:
AIDS research and therapy
Content:
Identifiers:
PMID: 28705213
PMC: PMC5513397
DOI: 10.1186/s12981-017-0157-8
Financial burden impact quality of life among Lymphatic Filariasis Patients
Authors:
Samuel Opoku Asiedu , author
Alexander Kwarteng , author
Emmanuel Kobla Atsu Amewu , author
Priscilla Kini , author
Bill Clinton Aglomasa , author
John Boulard Forkuor , author
Date:
2021-01-14
Journal:
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-40332/v5
Key drivers of graduate students’ interest in the subject of immunology in a tertiary institution of Ghana
Authors:
Alexander Kwarteng , author
Yarhands Dissou-Arthur , author
Augustina Sylverken , author
Michael Frimpong , author
Samuel Ahuno Terkper , author
Ellis Owusu-Dabo , author
Kar-wai Tong , editor
Date:
2018-01-01
Journal:
Cogent Education
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.1080/2331186X.2018.1498162
Graduate students’ interest in immunology as a discipline
Authors:
Alexander Kwarteng , author
Michael Frimpong , author
Augustina Angelina Sylverken , author
Yarhands D. Arthur , author
Samuel T. Ahuno , author
Ellis Owusu-Dabo , author
John Lee , editor
Date:
2017-01-01
Journal:
Cogent Education
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.1080/2331186X.2017.1398705
Financial burden impact quality of life among Filarial Pathology Patients
Authors:
Samuel Opoku Asiedu , author
Alexander Kwarteng , author
Emmanuel Kobla Atsu Amewu , author
Priscilla Kini , author
Bill Clinton Aglomasa , author
John Boulard Forkuor , author
Date:
2020-10-14
Journal:
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-40332/v2
Immunity in Filarial Infections: Lessons from Animal Models and Human Studies.
Authors:
Date:
2017-04-01
Journal:
Scandinavian journal of immunology
Content:
Identifiers:
PMID: 28168837
DOI: 10.1111/sji.12533
Hyperreactive Onchocerciasis is Characterized by a Combination of Th17-Th2 Immune Responses and Reduced Regulatory T Cells
Authors:
Katawa, G.
Layland, L.E.
Debrah, A.Y.
von Horn, C.
Batsa, L.
Kwarteng, A.
Arriens, S.
W. Taylor, D.
Specht, S.
Hoerauf, A.
Adjobimey, T.
Date:
2015-01-01
Journal:
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003414
EID: 2-s2.0-84922237580
Elevated adaptive immune responses are associated with latent infections of Wuchereria bancrofti
Authors:
Arndts, K.
Deininger, S.
Specht, S.
Klarmann, U.
Mand, S.
Adjobimey, T.
Debrah, A.Y.
Batsa, L.
Kwarteng, A.
Epp, C.
Taylor, M.
Adjei, O.
Layland, L.E.
Hoerauf, A.
Date:
2012-01-01
Journal:
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001611
EID: 2-s2.0-84861210522
The Potentials and Pitfalls of Microarrays in Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Focus on Human Filarial Infections.
Authors:
Date:
2016-08-01
Journal:
Microarrays (Basel, Switzerland)
Content:
Identifiers:
PMID: 27600086
PMC: PMC5040967
DOI: 10.3390/microarrays5030020
Doxycycline Leads to Sterility and Enhanced Killing of Female Onchocerca volvulus Worms in an Area With Persistent Microfilaridermia After Repeated Ivermectin Treatment: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Trial.
Authors:
Date:
2015-08-01
Journal:
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Content:
Identifiers:
PMID: 25948064
PMC: PMC4518165
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ363
Financial Burden Reportedly Impact Quality of Life Among Lymphatic Filariasis Pathology Patients in Ghana
Authors:
Samuel Opoku Asiedu , author
Emmanuel Kobla Atsu Amewu , author
Priscilla Kini , author
Bill Clinton Aglomasa , author
John Boulard Forkuor , author
Alexander Kwarteng , author
Date:
2020-07-13
Journal:
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-40332/v1
High Prevalence of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in the Age Range of 20-39 Years Old Individuals in Lome.
Authors:
Date:
2017-01-01
Journal:
The open virology journal
Content:
Identifiers:
PMID: 28217218
PMC: PMC5301296
DOI: 10.2174/1874357901710011001
The role of ultrasonography in the differentiation of the various types of filaricele due to bancroftian filariasis
Authors:
Mand, S.
Debrah, A.Y.
Klarmann, U.
Mante, S.
Kwarteng, A.
Batsa, L.
Marfo-Debrekyei, Y.
Adjei, O.
Hoerauf, A.
Date:
2011-01-01
Journal:
Acta Tropica
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.07.002
EID: 2-s2.0-80054034073
Genome editing as control tool for filarial infections
Authors:
Alexander Kwarteng , author
Augustina Sylverken , author
Ebenezer Asiedu , author
Samuel Terkper Ahuno , author
Date:
2021-05-01
Journal:
Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2021.111292
Financial burden reportedly impact quality of life among Lymphatic Filariasis Pathology Patients in Ghana
Authors:
Samuel Opoku Asiedu , author
Emmanuel Kobla Atsu Amewu , author
Priscilla Kini , author
Bill Clinton Aglomasa , author
John Boulard Forkuor , author
Alexander Kwarteng , author
Date:
2020-06-09
Journal:
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-33807/v1
Financial burden impact quality of life among Lymphatic Filariasis Patients
Authors:
Samuel Opoku Asiedu , author
Alexander Kwarteng , author
Emmanuel Kobla Atsu Amewu , author
Priscilla Kini , author
Bill Clinton Aglomasa , author
John Boulard Forkuor , author
Date:
2020-12-28
Journal:
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-40332/v4
Financial burden impact quality of life among lymphatic Filariasis patients
Authors:
Samuel Opoku Asiedu , author
Alexander Kwarteng , author
Emmanuel Kobla Atsu Amewu , author
Priscilla Kini , author
Bill Clinton Aglomasa , author
John Boulard Forkuor , author
Date:
2021-12-01
Journal:
BMC Public Health
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-10170-8
Doxycycline improves filarial lymphedema independent of active filarial infection: A randomized controlled trial
Authors:
Mand, S.
Debrah, A.Y.
Klarmann, U.
Batsa, L.
Marfo-Debrekyei, Y.
Kwarteng, A.
Specht, S.
Belda-Domene, A.
Fimmers, R.
Taylor, M.
Adjei, O.
Hoerauf, A.
Date:
2012-01-01
Journal:
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis486
EID: 2-s2.0-84864950046
Influence of seasonal variation on reported filarial attacks among people living with lymphedema in Ghana
Authors:
Alexander Kwarteng , author
Yarhands Dissou Arthur , author
John Kanyiri Yamba , author
Augustina A. Sylverken , author
Priscilla Kini , author
Samuel Terkper Ahuno , author
Ellis Owusu-Dabo , author
Date:
2019-12-01
Journal:
BMC Infectious Diseases
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-019-4084-2
Immunoepidemiological Profiling of Onchocerciasis Patients Reveals Associations with Microfilaria Loads and Ivermectin Intake on Both Individual and Community Levels
Authors:
Arndts, K.
Specht, S.
Debrah, A.Y.
Tamarozzi, F.
Klarmann Schulz, U.
Mand, S.
Batsa, L.
Kwarteng, A.
Taylor, M.
Adjei, O.
Martin, C.
Layland, L.E.
Hoerauf, A.
Date:
2014-01-01
Journal:
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Content:
Identifiers:
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002679
EID: 2-s2.0-84895773706
Current meningitis outbreak in Ghana: Historical perspectives and the importance of diagnostics.
Authors:
Date:
2017-05-01
Journal:
Acta tropica
Content:
Identifiers:
PMID: 28122199
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2017.01.014

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